Blotter device.



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BLOTTER DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1916.

Application filed May 29, 1912. Serial No. 700,534.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RUDOLPH MAGOSY, residing at Ridgewood, Brooklyn, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blotter Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful blotter device particularly one of the rocker type, and one of the objects of the invention is to provide a structure in Which use is made of spaces in the device which are otherwise waste.

' Another object of the invention is to provide a rocker blotter having a receptacle portion depending from the top piece of the frame, and a cover for said receptacle, said cover constituting the support for a writing pad, calendar or the like.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less broad than those stated above, will be in part obvious and in part specifically referred to in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown a merely preferred form of embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective of a device embodying my invention, showing the cover open. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central sectional View of the subject matter of Fig. 1, with the cover in closed position. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33' of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of a modified form of the invention. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the subject matter of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a transverse section on the line 66 of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 5 of still another modified form of the invention.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, I have shown at 1 the top piece of a rocker blotter, the rocker being shown at 2, and the absorbent sheet or blotter proper being indicated at 3. The blotter 3 is held stretched along the outer surface of the rocker 2 by its engagement between the ends of the rocker and the inturned flanges 4 of the top piece 1. Depending from the top piece 1 into the spaces between the top piece and the rocker 2 is a receptacle or pocket member 5, the same being symmetrically disposed'with respect to the top piece 1 and either integral therewith or rigidly secured thereto. -As ,a cover for this receptacle I show in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 a hollow member 6, pivoted on the top piece to one side of the pocket 5 and closing against a stop 7,.the member 6 being preferably held in this closed position by frictional engagement with the stop 7. As shown, the cover 6 is hollow, is-of length and width sufiicient to adequately cover the pocket 5, is open at the end which engages the stop 7, as indicated at 8, and has its top surface out out, and indicated at 9. WVithin this cover 6 may be placed calendar cards or the like, the same being inserted into the open end 8, and being visible through the'cut out portion at the top ofthe cover. The member 6 when in the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3 closes the receptacle or pocket 5, and at the same time the calendar cards or the like within the cover 6 are held in place by means of the stop 7 hen it is desired to change the order of the cards within thecover, or to expose a new card or the like through the top of the cover, this may readily be accomplished by raising the cover and then manipulating the cards through the opening 9 in the top of the cover, and through the opening 1 in the bottom of the cover.

In the forms shown in Figs. 4 to 7 inclusive, the cover for the pocket is a multiple .device. As shown in Fig. 5, the cover proper 12 is a plate, which is pivoted on one end of the pocket 5, and this plate 12 supports a writing pad 14, the leaves of the pad being held between the plate 12 and a member 15 which is preferably spring pressed toward the plate 12. At the end of this member 15 may be pivoted another member 16 similar to the member 6 shown in Fig. 1, the same constituting a calendar holder. When the parts are in closed position, the plate 12 readily passes inside the stop 17, while the outer end of the member 16 rests against the inwardly projecting-part 18 of the stop 17 so that the device will appear as indicated in Fig. 6. If desired, the member 15 between the pivot of plate 12 and the pad 14 supported thereon, may be substantially U shaped, with a flat spring 19 pressing out from one of the arms of the U, so that a pencil or the like may be slipped into place between this spring 19 and the opposing wall of the channel formed by the U. As shown in Fig. 7 the pad 14 is covered by a simple pivoted plate 20, upon the outside of which may be advertising matter or ornamentation.

It is thought that the use of the device will be apparent from the foregoing description, but it may be pointed out that the receptacle 5, affords a convenient place for keeping stamps, pens, etc.; the calendar is of course a convenience, and its presence in volves no additional parts, because it is carried by the cover of the receptacle, and the calendar holder is closed when the receptacle is closed. The utility of the pad and of the pencil holder will of course be apparent.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely diiferent embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention, which as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,-is:

1. A blotter having a top piece and a rocker portion spaced therefrom, said top piece being provided with a pocket member depending into the space between the top piece and the rocker-portion, a hollow cover for said pocket movably secured to the top piece, and a stop engaging said cover when the latter is in closed position, said cover being open at the end which engages the stop.

2. A blotter comprising a top piece and a rocker portion spaced therefrom, said top piece being provided with a pocket depending into the space between the top piece and the rocker, a hollow cover for said pocket pivoted to the top piece at one side of the pocket, a stop at the opposite side of the pocket, adapted to engage the cover when the latter is in closed position, said cover being open at its end which engages the stop.

3. A blotter comprising a top piece and a rocker portion spaced therefrom, said top piece having a pocket member depending into the space between the top piece and the rocker, a cover for the pocket pivotally secured at one side of the pocket, and a member pivotally secured to said cover.

In witness whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

RUDOLPH MAGOSY.

\Vitnesses:

FRANK J KENT, ALDA MILLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained or five cents each, by addressing the Gomnluloner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

